How To Change Your Front Wheel Bearing On An E70 BMW X5 (2007-2013)
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2017
- In this video I show you how to change your bolt in style front wheel bearing on an E70 BMW X5.
Total cost was $85 for both front bearings.
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I appreciate the excellent tutorial...it worked well. My experience was different in that the rear T60 torque bolts were relatively easy to remove with a breaker bar, but removing the bearings from the spline was brutal. They were fused, so I used 18" garage door spring bars to create leverage to hammer the axle out...very difficult. Without your tutorial, I would not have even tried it. Thank you.
I like that you are not too married to your method. I like that you are able to guide us by what working and more importantly , what does not.
Thanks for the DIY, got it off without the puller, but definitely needed the impact for the axle nut. Cheers
Great Video. Gave me the confidence to do my own X5. Had to buy the 36mm socket and E18 socket. Callipers need a 9mm hex key, so just took the whole calliper off with the bracket. Shafts were stuck tight and the hub puller needed the impact wrench to get them off. took just over an hour each side. I didn't take off the drop link bars or the top arm, just turned the wheel left and right to get access to the hub bolts.
thanks for the DIY vid. showed me what not to do and what tools i need. i am having the same problems with my X5.
excellent job and great detail sir 100-100 lots of conversation and explaination/ input is what is perfect ty for sharing. the 36mm 12 point and the M12 sockets are the most important ones ty
Excellent DIY! I don't need to do this on my '11 35d just yet, but it might be something I tackle myself thanks to this.
And...now I need this! :)
Your videos are essential for me. Thank you.
Need to do this on the rear wheels, looks easy enough.
Another pro video my friend, thank you
Nice E30M on back!!!!!
BMW dealer labor parts, supplies, tax, etc etc...$1800 for both front wheels bearings. Thank you for your awesome video
insane...any intelligent person can do it on their own thanks to such good videos!
Great! I have to replace all wheel bearings on X5 e70. Can you make a video to replace the rear wheel bearing?
Thanks for this!
THANK YOU! I'm looking at doing this to my 2011 but i am seeing the timkens hubs come with the sensor built in.
Great video. Thank you.
Thanks for the video, Very few folks making detailed repairs for these older X5's. One suggestion... maybe lower your music bed a tad as it is hard to hear you instructions. Keep up the great work!
Thanks yeah I've since lowered it by over 50%.
Straight forward job. But make sure you have the right tool bit for the bolts, there are 3 different types of head. T60 torx or torx plus or spline. Also the bolts have different thread pitches depending on the hub. Something to bear in mind if the bearing hub didn't come with bolts.
Nice plz more vid and on parts you buy.
Good video. Thanks.
lesson learned here: 20:28
front side - use an impact gun for Axle nut and to the puller press, to disconnect from spline.
Back side - use a breaker bar
thank you very much
I would have disconnected the tie and end link. That way the whole knuckle could swing without having to turn the wheel. Great video still. Thank you
Great video! How do you torque the axle nut to 315 ft lbs?
I have a 2004 X5 I bought a year ago. Dealer replaced rt. CV boot/axle. I just noticed when changing oil that that wheel bearing has a little play, with NO noise (I'm familiar with bearings going & related hum/grind). Is it possible that they just didn't torque axle nut properly? Tabs are knocked in.
Replacing axles on both sides just wondered if it could be done without removing some of the control arm tie rod ends etc.
Do you think this would be similar to an e9x xdrive in the front? Might just take the entire spindle off
Why didn't you remove the bolts from the hub assembly then use the puller to pull the hub from the spline? It would have been so much easier.
I took mine in for alignment 2 years ago maybe, just for routine and the guy said it needed some part fixed on all 4 quoted me 1500+. Not sure if its the bearing but I can't say I hear or feel anything like what was described.Mine is a 07 e70. With about 156k as of 6/8/21.
Thanks for the DIY, I'm doing this on the weekend. Any difficulty getting the axle splines pushed back into the new bearing during install? The BMW tool appears to have a way to "pull" the axle back in. That is my only concern about this project.
Hey sorry for the late response, no I didn't have any difficulty getting the axle splines into the new bearing. Where you able to get it done?
Will it give you enough room to push axle back and out by removing wheel bearing.
Hi - Thanks for the video - I'm about to attempt this fix on my BMW X5 2007 4.8 -- just like yours. Curious if your "cheap" eBay bearings have held up OK since your fix -- presumably around Feb 2017. Like you, I just have a slight noise, so it doesn't make sense to spend $100-$300 a bearing just to get rid of a little noise. Now, if your wheels fell off in 2018, I guess the joke was on us! Hope to hear from you!
Used them in past 2 years still no issue and yes ebay
Where did you buy the hub and bearing pressed?
Doing this now on a 2012 x6m, seems like the e70 and e71 share a lot of the same parts
Hello would you share what is the actual size of the 12 point torx socket ?
Good video but why the hell would they make the 4 bolts that hold on the hub assembly a 12 point? Well I stripped one and just put it all back together taking it to a shop (not a bmw dealer) to finish it out already had bought the hub and nut so should just have to pay for labor
whats the socket size for the brake caliper bolt?
How long did it take to change it ? Thanks
Where did you get the aluminium axle bolt from? Thank you
VD. ? HOW DID THESE OFF LESSER BRAND HUB BEARINGS HOLD UP AND OR PERFORM?
excellent video! Did you have any problems installing the new bearing onto the hub? Would I need any special BMW tools for that?
Thank you, I bought it with the hub already pressed into the bearing. I would recommend you do the same. They'll ship ready to bolt onto the car.
Aveman1 So the new hub just slides into the shaft? Sounds easy enough. Where in TX are you?
Yes this style of hub/bearing is pretty easy to install. I'm just outside of Houston.
Glad to hear you're close by. I'm in Beaumont.
nice
These white box hubs have high failure rate. Maybe the seals fail. might smear silicone or some sticky brake grease on the back side seal to keep water and moisture out.
Can some one please tell me if it is the same part for the rear hubs ?
Thank you for the dyi video! So it's been a year, how are the bearings holding up? would you recommend buying them? i need to replace my front bearings on my 2010 X5 35d.
np! So far so good, they probably have about 5K miles on them now.
I have just hit 25000 miles on these hubs and they are getting noisy fast. I sent a message to AM and they are refunding me the cost of the bearings under their warranty program. i will buy another set.
Have you had any issues w/ your EDC, if so, what did you do to fix it? Mine is showing EDC malfunction.
I have not as of yet.
Great video. Whats the torque spec for the bearing nut?
That would be 315 ft-lb
@@VehicularDIY First thank you for the video. I'm going to attempt this tonight. How did you torque it to 315 ft-lb? Did you buy a very expensive torque wrench or is there another more affordable way? Thank you
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You should not have to hammer out any of those joints in the suspension if you jack up the assemble to relieve the joints. They come out without effort via hand.
What’s the background music?
Question for you. I’m doing a front hub replacement. First comment, there was no way to put the hub on without an installation tool. My hub was OE BMW. Second question - the hub bolts are threading really hard when I’m putting them back on - is that normal? It feels almost like they’re cross threaded. New BMW bolts into BMW hub.
The bolts might have thread locker from the factory so that would be normal if you're feeling resistance while trying to thread them in.
@@VehicularDIY Thanks - I think it's just the case that those bolts are snug. I used my breaker bar and they went in fine (albeit with a lot of effort). You had a much easier go of it that I did! But, it's all squared away now. Thanks again.
great vid, but your smoke detector is driving me (and my dogs) nuts!
Thanks, this is the second comment I've received on that smoke detector. It's up in the attic and a pita to get to but I think enough is enough now haha.
The sad thing is I kept thinking it was a smoke detector in my house going off. I kept taking the headphones off and then it went away ... ummm ... yeah, not one of my finer moments. :)
Nice m3 back there you still have it?
I don't, sold it a couple years back.
@@VehicularDIY why’d you sell it those are skyrocketing right now
What might have been a better video would have been to record the other side after the lessons learned from the first. Presumably it would have been much quicker.
Clearly
Great video, but i thing no one like this music
Where did u get the bearings any link? Great price
I wasn't able to dig up a link but I did pick them up on eBay.
Yes, im looking for bearing and found this deal today (Apr 28, 2018), ebay store name is "AM-AutoParts"; but as a mechanic im wondering about the quality of the actual bearing!??? BUT, 10 year warranty, like DAMN, Bmw part faild after only 7....
Don't go cheap on this part, it is too much work to have to deal with it again. I see Rockauto has SFK for under $100/piece. I heard it's good brand
Great video. Thank you very much.
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching.